| Collective personal |
Add medical school training |
Team discussions |
Education |
Case presentations inquiring about bias |
| Personal |
Develop personal insight/awareness |
Consider opposite of first impression of data |
Cognitive |
What if hypothesis was false? |
| Personal |
Specific training |
In services with staff, peer reviewers, editors |
Cognitive |
Brainstorm methods to mitigate bias among editors and peer reviewers |
| Personal |
Reduce reliance on memory |
Require review of literature and use of checklists that confront bias |
Technological |
Digital scientific review and evaluation of skewness |
| Personal |
Feedback |
Editor communication with peer reviewers about decisions |
Technological |
Digital metrics |
| Editorial |
Monitor performance |
Editors review metrics |
Technological |
Digital report of % positive outcome over time |
| Editorial |
Confront affinity bias |
Double-blind versus single-blind review |
Technological |
Increase publication from lesser known institutions |
| Collective editorial |
Confront impact factor influence |
Editorial policy consensus to modify impact factor |
Political |
Report with/without guidelines and meta-analyses included |
| Editorial |
Make task easier |
Provision of checklists and templates for editors/reviewers |
Technological |
Digital application |
| Editorial |
Monitoring of performance |
Metrics review |
Technological |
Artificial Intelligence |
| Editorial |
Improve scientific reliability |
Editorial review of potentially important ideas |
Cognitive |
Publish validation studies |
